Creating content for the leading edge of the immersive video world — virtual reality, augmented reality, 360-degree — can be challenging for many newsrooms both in terms of how to master the technology and what projects to try it on.

The following are a series of observations written on sticky notes and in the margins of printed-out lecture PowerPoints over the last two years. They are, collectively, a series of things Judd Slivka has seen while learning and teaching drone journalism.